On Monday 7 December, there will be appetizers in the [[#Hack_Room|hack room/hospitality suite]] at the hotel from 8-9 pm, courtesy of the Hilton Garden Inn. This will include a selection of bruchetta, melon and prosciutto, cheese platter, crudite platter, and finger sandwiches.

On Monday 7 December, there will be appetizers in the [[#Hack_Room|hack room/hospitality suite]] at the hotel from 8-9 pm, courtesy of the Hilton Garden Inn. This will include a selection of bruchetta, melon and prosciutto, cheese platter, crudite platter, and finger sandwiches.

FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developer's Conference, an opportunity for all who contribute to or use Fedora to meet, learn, plan, and hack. This event is free and is open to everyone. To learn about what a FUDCon is like, you can view a video from the last North American FUDCon.

Event Details

FUDCon Toronto 2009 will be held at Seneca College, Seneca@York campus (map), from December 5-7, 2009 (Saturday-Monday). Saturday's activities start at 09:30 a.m. sharp. The hackfest activities on Sunday and Monday start at 10:00 a.m. sharp. For best results, arrive around 9:30-9:45 so you have time to get situated, find out where you want to go, and so on.

Pre-registration

Please add your name to the list if you will attend. Registration is free and open to everyone.

Also, please indicate the following:

Put an X in the $$$ column if you need funding to attend, and follow the instructions at #Requesting funding (Closed). We'll use these answers to help figure out budgeting for the event. We are no longer accepting funding requests

Put a V in the Veg column if you would like vegetarian fare for any meals that we provide during the event. If you prefer vegan fare, please mark that column VV. We will do our best to make sure everyone is accommodated!

Put your T-shirt size in the Size column, so we can have an idea about what sizes to have available.

If you are looking to share a room, mark an X in the "Roomshare?" column.

Use the Comments section for anything else you think organizers need to know, or to offer or ask for space or rides.

The Hotel Booked column values are: Y for Yes (booked); NA for Not applicable (local, or staying with friends); or blank for pending.

Badges have been printed. Changes to the table below will not be reflected on the name badges. You are still welcome to sign up and participate -- you can create a handwritten badge at the event. FUDCon is free of cost for everyone.

Most interested in mizmo's UI Inkscape session, the OLPC/SoaS and mchua's teaching open source sessions; I'd like to learn how to contribute to packaging and had talked to mchua about possibly contributing to font packaging that mizmo would like help with; I plan on participating in the Fedora Insight hackfest to tweak FWN and other content there as well as the Ambassador Event activity; It would be great if I could get some money to offset car rental costs, which are estimated to be about $120; if I can't get that, $50 to help offset gas would be great; also happy to rideshare up with someone from the midwest going by northern Indiana or pick someone up in MI on the way

I am a student that has been involved for a while, I would very much like to attend the event and meet people I have been working with. I will be getting in early Sat and leaving Mon late, I cannot afford the hotel right now. (Brennan, your hotel will be covered.)

I am student from Seneca who is attending in a software building, packaging and testing course. So, I am highly appreciated to attend this event to meet people from whom I am sure that I will learn more about how to contribute to packaging and all sort of things related to software building, packaging and testing.

Linux Foundation - Chief Kernel.org Administrator. NOTE: Flying into YYZ on AC756 arriving 2041 on Dec 4th. - how do we get from YYZ -> Hotel? (long distance cab would be particularly expensive right?) Leaving via VIA Rail, need guidance on how to get down there (40K from hotel)

The "130" mark Registration for FUDCon Toronto 2009 continues below this point. However, this is where we can no longer guarantee extra freebies for everyone. You are still welcome to sign up and participate -- FUDCon is free of cost for everyone.

Shawn: for no snow, you have to ask Chris Tyler, he is the only one who can set the flag to "nosnow" :-)

NA

mpaiva - Former LUX@Seneca

185

Gregory Masseau

M

NA

Badges have been printed! Names added below this line will not appear on the pre-printed badges. You are still welcome to sign up and participate -- you can create a handwritten badge at the event. FUDCon is free of cost for everyone.

FUDBus departs the hotel in Toronto for Westford, MA. Meet in the lobby.

21:30

FUDBus approximate arrival time at Red Hat in Westford.

21:45

FUDBus departs for Boston Alewife T station.

22:30

FUDBus arrival at Boston Alewife T station.

↑The hotel staff has been advised that a bus will be arriving late, with a substantial number of passengers to check in.

Bus Wardens

Mel Chua has agreed to act as one of the "bus wardens" for the trip, to make sure that everyone who gets on the bus in Massachusetts gets off the bus in Toronto, and vice versa. Other volunteers are welcome. The bus wardens will also ensure that the driver and passengers are kept informed of travel times, passenger needs such as stops, and other useful information.

If you plan on taking a plane to the US and then riding the bus to Toronto, you may need special documentation and a transit visa. Consult the appropriate authorities in the USA and Canada well in advance of travel!

Lodging

Lodging will be at the Hilton Garden Inn Vaughan. The nightly rate for a single or double occupancy room (1 king/2 queens) is CA$105 before November 13. (Note: if you did not make reservations before November 13 and would still like to receive the group room rate, please contact Paul Frields (stickster), Mel Chua (mchua), or Chris Tyler (ctyler) on #fudcon-planning on freenode -- the hotel has offered to extend the group rate for any additional registrations, but this must be done through the group sales coordinator rather than through the web site).

Breakfast buffet vouchers will be available for CA$6 each (regular price $14.95) during check-in.

Hack Room

Suite 316 at the hotel has been set aside as a hospitality suite/hack room/social space for Saturday through Monday evenings. The Hack 'n' Snack will be held here.

Ground Transportation in Toronto

The FUDCon campus location is well-served by public transit -- over 1700 vehicles a day stop at the adjacent transit loop. For more information:

Parking

Parking in the Student Services parking garage adjacent to Seneca@York is abundant but costs $14/day.

Parking at the hotel and FUDPub is free.

Networking

Campus: The Seneca@York campus has wireless networking (802.11b/g) and web authentication information will be available at registration. Wired access will also be available in some rooms (bring an ethernet cable) to reduce load on the wireless network.

Hotel: Wireless access (802.11b/g) is available in all public areas and guest rooms; wired access is also available in guest rooms. No authentication is required.

Packing List

Passport (if from outside Canada)

Laptop with 802.11b/g wireless.

Extension cord (and North American power adapter, if from outside NA).

Ethernet cable (for hotel and/or hackfest).

In Firefox, select "about:config" and set the value of network.dns.disableIPv6 to true to work around an IPv6-timeout-before-IPv4 problem.

Credit card (VISA or MasterCard) or small amount of Canadian cash. (ATMs are common, ones operated by banks generally have lower service fees).

Your presentation slides or anything needed for the hackfest.

Casual clothes for the event.

Warm clothes for outdoors.

Temperatures are currently a few degrees above the historic average, just above freezing. No significant snow yet but it could come anytime.

Cell Phones

If you live outside of Canada, call your cell phone service provider and add their International or Canada-specific rate plan add-on - it may save you a lot of money. For Sprint, the call rate drops from $0.59/min to $0.20/min for voice calls. Sprint drops from $0.03/KB to $0.002/KB for data. For AT&T the rate is $20/MB if you don't have a pre-paid data plan.

Agenda

Tracks

Tracks for Saturday Based on the currently proposed technical sessions we have designed two tracks. While these session topics are confirmed the actual time may vary. Remember FUDCon is for you and you are free to attend the sessions of your choice. These are just our
recommendations.

General schedule

Scheduling on Saturday Technical sessions on Saturday are 50 minutes in length followed by a ten-minute break. There is a one-hour break for lunch, and an additional 30 minutes after the last session for people to converse or blog, before the final wrap-up session.

Technical sessions - Saturday

Refereeing for technical sessions Note that this FUDCon, technical sessions may be referred or decided by panel or other means. However, we do require material for all sorts of experience levels, so do not worry about competition. Simply propose something you think would be of interest to attendees.

Technical sessions ANYONE can propose a session, including you. Just pick a topic near and dear to your heart and propose it here.

Do you need a design eye for your frightful UI? Are you a developer or maintainer of a free & open source application and are not sure where to start in improving your application's usability or how to get design help? Learn some of the basics you can do on your own to improve your application's usability, and also learn what kind of prep work will make it easy for designers to help you before you approach them.

This talk will provide an accessible introduction to rolling your own Linux-capable microprocessor from scratch using only the Free Software tools provided by Fedora and modern FPGA technology. This talk will be based on the presenter's experience with the Moxie project, and no special knowledge of electronic design will be required to enjoy (although a sense of wonder and adventure is mandatory!).

We'll have a session related to http://teachingopensource.org and Fedora's involvement in it, and how this can help you build capacity in your project or bring real-world learning into your classroom (or both!) Placeholder description until we figure out exactly what that is. ;)

Puppetmanaged can be used to manage your entire IT toolchain, from provisioning with cobbler to managing puppet itself. Come learn how to deploy your entire infrastructure from a USB stick. (Pending success at work, namely, if a actually finish this in time)

Fedora Infrastructure has about an even mix of Programmers and System Administrators. Listen to their experiences on how their views conflict and how they work together despite their differences. Bring questions!

Right now within the Fedora infrastructure we are setting up AMQP brokers in order to provide unified messaging across all of our services. Come to find out what AMQP means for Fedora and how developers and users will benefit. This is an introduction to the concepts of the AMQP protocol and how we intend to utilize it in Fedora. It will be of interest to coders and admins alike.

Intermediate and up (though a beginner might find the introduction and Fedora specific parts interesting)

How to effectively use sound in Fedora, including setting different levels for different apps, switching streams between devices, and using inputs.

Beginner

Up for grabs / You know you want to!

Mirroring Fedora for Fun and Profit!

or at least to save money on bandwidth. Targeting system administrators at companies and schools, we'll discuss how to set up a Fedora mirror, get registered in MirrorManager, and watch the bits fly by.

A step by step introduction on how to set up a low latency, scalable messaging infrastructure. Topics covered includes how to get the bits, client API's, configuration, tuning & troubleshooting and how/where to get help if needed. Recommended for folks planning to attend Jesse Keating's 'Get on the BUS' and John (J5) Palmieri's 'AMQP Messaging for Fedora Developers'

Fedora is developed in a style that has been described as "edge programming" -- features are developed by individual projects, then combined to form a complete system. This style is being researched as a software engineering strategy for future software systems that will be developed over the next decade; the first such system is the medical records system being pushed for in the USA. The research on edge programming has implications for Fedora and similar projects.

Anyone

Benjamin Kreuter

Getting started with IPv6

Use Fedora services and other cool stuff over IPv6. Learn how to deploy a simple IPv6 setup for small home/office networks.

While somethings require luck and timing, nothing happens unless we make an effort to be present when people are gathering. In this presentation we'll cover techniques you can use while we discuss actual events. Answering the question... How did one seemingly random meeting result in Rochester Institute of Technology students being some of the first to receive FOSS development course work as part of their formal education?

boot.kernel.org - or how we can change the world one distro & user at a time. Making more, and better, use of network resources to help with mirroring and distribution. Start with an intro & demo of boot.kernel.org, what's available w/ respect to Fedora. Moves to problems we have, what Fedora can do and a general discussion about what more we can do with this new tool. All welcome, all input good.

Ever wondered what your Fedora system is doing? Want to get a general overview of what your system is doing? Or dive deep into applications, java processes or the kernel without needing to stop or interrupt anything? SystemTap is the tool of choice for complex tasks that may require live analysis, programmable on-line response, and whole-system symbolic access. SystemTap can also handle simple tracing jobs. Learn how to setup SystemTap, what ready to run scripts there are, and how to tailor your probes to specific applications or kernel usage patterns.

How I got the best job in the world, and how I (nearly) lost it by forgetting my tickets

I was hired by Red Hat to be Mike McGrath's and Ricky Zhou's helper on Fedora Infrastructure. It is the greatest systems administrator job one could ask for.. but the learning curve can be rather hard to get. This is how to not lose your mind or your job if you get this some day in the future.

How to extend your application to improve observability with Systemtap

SystemTap can observe on multiple levels, from kernel, libraries, applications, java to database transactions. To help your users to get a better view what your package is doing you can add tapsets and static markers. Learn how to rapid prototype observability of your application through tapsets with function and statement probes (on any existing binary) and how to add high-level (zero-overhead) markers to your package sources that tell users about everything important, passes, transactions, service starting/stopping, etc.

The Amazon EC2 cloud is a great platform for users, developers, and organizations needing scalable access to server resources. Unfortunately Fedora 8 is the latest supported release available there. How do we get this current, keep it current, and why is it important?

A lot of work happens between an upstream OpenJDK drop and it going to users as an rpm. This talk will focus on all of the things that the OpenJDK team does -- the testing, patching, building, etc. The talk will also focus on the team's efforts on items like Shark/Zero (non x86/x86_64 ports), JigSaw integration, SystemTap support, WebStart/Plugin, etc.

If you hate your fonts, or if love them, if you don't know what Unicode is but willing to learn, if you are into typography, or internationalization, this talk is for you. Behdad is to blame for everything font, text, and Unicode related on Fedora's default desktop, and here's your chance to boo him on the stage! Come hear about FreeType, fontconfig, Pango, automatic font installation, and oh, the new HarfBuzz. I'll tailor my content for the audience.

A look at Fedora's new AutoQA system, including its history and design, how QA is using it to solve the Broken Rawhide problem, and how we're going to use it to keep broken packages out of the repos. We're also hoping to hear about tests you want to add, and discuss how people might add tests for their packages.

You just became a packager, or like me, you have maintained several packages for years, but you don't do this as your day job. Things change and documentation is scattered. What systems do you need to use? What tools are there to keep track of your tags, packages, branches, updates, abi changes. What are all these different package queues and how do you keep track of these? I dont have all the answers, and still find myself lost on too many occasions. I hope this talk will attract some junior and senior packagers to try and make a "package life cycle" diagram for packagers or perhaps some additional tools to assist with Fedora's package flow

Somewhere over the rainbow exists RHEL6. When should we start building for it? what will we branch. will we do a mess rebuild? or ask maintainers to branch and build themselves. there is lots we can do to make sure that EPEL is ready to go when things start to show up.

The packaging guidelines are hard to navigate. We need to reorganize them so that packagers and reviewers can easily find what they're looking for. I (and any other Packaging Committee members that are present) would like to have a brainstorming session with other packagers to come up with problems. Then sit down with people from the Documentation Project to work on reorganizing the pages to address those issues.

Ambassadors need some good tools to help recruit attendees at conferences, LUG activities and other useful events. F-E-S plans to be a portal to this sort of need and will provide a front end for each conference for attendees to get more information about groups to join, etc. In addition, integration into Fedora Community to help manage the new recruits, mentorees, etc.

Rm. ?

Fedora Eclipse plugins

Andrew Overholt & Elliott Baron

Elliott has written the basis for koji and bodhi integration with Eclipse. We need to update these, write tests, verify usability, and generally polish and plan for the future. This will be a great opportunity to see how easy it is to hack on Eclipse plugins and will be an excellent alternative to the command-line for new packagers.

eclipse-pde

installed.

Rm. ?

Yum miscellaneous

Seth Vidal

Since it is what I'm always doing I'll probably be working on yum and the related tools(yum, yum-utils, urlgrabber, createrepo, preupgrade). Anyone is welcome to come along and ask questions on how to write their own tools using the yum/createrepo/etc apis. Since this is over 2 months away I have no idea what I'll be working on.

comfort in python

Rm. ?

Eclipse SystemTap script integration

Charley Wang & Roland Grunberg

Charley and Roland have been working on an API for adding SystemTap user-space scripts for launch via Eclipse. The API is set up to handle real-time or post-script processing on any C/C++ project in the Eclipse workspace, and we're working on easily accessible Zest integration. This is a fun opportunity to play around with Eclipse plugins and stap scripts at the same time!

eclipse-pde installed

SystemTap installed

eclipse-cdt installed

Rm. ?

No Frozen Rawhide

Jesse Keating

Come help us hack on the next generation development processes for Fedora.

Knowledge of our current development processes

Rm. ?

Get on the (Message) BUS!

Jesse Keating

We're going to hack on a message bus for Fedora infrastructure.

Comfort in python, some knowledge of qpid/amqp

Rm. ?

Get rid of CVS!

Jesse Keating

I'm always thinking about ways to replace CVS with something better, I welcome a discussion on this.

A review of where Fedora Mini is at the moment including the state of Moblin. Moving Fedora Mini forward in F-13 and beyond! Will cover what people what it to be, where they see it going ,who wants to do what. Merging with Fedora sugar/olpc as there's too much overlap not to. Supporting gnome mobile, moblin and other small device groups to help attract them. What is required to support the ARM platform as that's where the 'mini' devices are headed in some part

Systemtap allows event tracing of programs when they have static probes inserted. This allows for tracing specifics of an application on a higher level that is meaningful to the application user so they don't have to know the exact source code details for tracing what is happening. We want to go over the packages in the SystemTap Static Probes feature list. But everybody is encouraged to bring their package and hack together to make it more observable.

Having followed the Technical Session on How to extend your application to improve observability with Systemtap would be good.

Other Scheduled Meetings

As many members of the Fedora Board as possible will gather face to face for discussions about the previous term's work, elections, and the road ahead for the Fedora Project.

Usability Testing

Máirín Duffy

Come check out our open source portable usability lab and help us out by running through a quick usability test. We'll be running tests on Fedora Community and the upcoming www.fedoraproject.org redesign.

Documentation

Logging everything at FAD EMEA via IRC was a complete success. It enabled us to integrate people better in the conversation flow without being present. I (Yaakov Nemoy) want to do this again for FUDCon on a larger scale. If we include the streaming audio and video solution we had in Boston last winter, we can cover as many bases as possible. In order to cover as many sessions as possible, we need a few things:

Volunteers - Yes, You. If you're not planning on doing too many sessions, volunteer to show up with your laptop and fingers ready for typing

A/V Equipment - Let that inner nerd shine

Bandwidth - Can we make sure we can get the QoS guarantees we need to keep the a/v flowing smoothly?

The planned structure at the moment is to provide one irc channel per room. We can name them after the actual rooms, so it's easy to see the traffic based on the posted schedule. This has the added advantage of enabling people to participate in more than one session at a time.

Social Events

Saturday, December 5

FUDPub

Following the day of technical sessions, we'll be moving the fun to Dave and Buster's. We'll provide food, pool and snooker tables, and non-alcoholic beverages for the first 130 registrants (up to the "130 mark" in the pre-registration table). There's also a full bar available for those so inclined, and a midway full of other entertainment options!

Sunday, December 6

Skating

On Sunday 6 December after the day's hackfest sessions, we will be taking a group down to Nathan Phillips Square (in front of Toronto City Hall) where there's an outdoor skating rink. Skate rentals are available for something less than $10. We will take the TTC (bus -> subway) and it will cost $2.75 each way. Exact change or over payment is required for the TTC.

After skating, we will head to The 3 Brewers pub/restaurant which is about a 10 minute walk from Nathan Phillips Square. Everyone is responsible for covering their own costs. In case anyone is hungry before/during skaing, there are trucks adjacent to the rink which serve fries, hot dogs, burgers, etc. The trucks will only accept cash.

In order to enable travel directly downtown from campus, arrangements have been made for laptops to be securely stored at Seneca (with options for delivery to the hotel hack room Sunday night or pickup at campus Monday morning).

Monday, December 7

Hack 'n' Snack

On Monday 7 December, there will be appetizers in the hack room/hospitality suite at the hotel from 8-9 pm, courtesy of the Hilton Garden Inn. This will include a selection of bruchetta, melon and prosciutto, cheese platter, crudite platter, and finger sandwiches.